Modeling the effects of contact-tracing apps on the spread of the coronavirus disease: Mechanisms, conditions, and efficiency

Asako Chiba

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0256151

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Modeling the effects of contact-tracing apps on the spread of the coronavirus disease: Mechanisms, conditions, and efficiency

Asako Chiba

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: asakochiba01@gmail.com

Affiliation Post-doctoral Fellow, Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0286-4614

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Modeling the effects of contact-tracing apps on the spread of the coronavirus disease: Mechanisms, conditions, and efficiency

Asako Chiba

Published: September 1, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256151

About the Authors

Asako Chiba

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: asakochiba01@gmail.com

Affiliation Post-doctoral Fellow, Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0286-4614

Competing Interests

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

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